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John E. Rectenwald
CEO
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We are very proud to have John as part of the Atlas team. He has more that 30 years of experience in technical, project, corporate, and business management and consulting. John, a registered architect, spent most of his career managing large projects, including hospital construction, secure communication networks for DOD/DISA and manufacturing facilities for large American corporations. In addition, John has traveled extensively and worked to bring new building technologies to several countries in Africa. John has years of experience in the hiring and management of administrative, professional, and technical staff and line and staff roles in the design, construction, telecommunications, facilities operations and maintenance, and development businesses.

Mr. Rectenwald provides consulting services to Atlas's sister company, Elite Personnel, to support the company’s operations, growth, and transition into a larger regional company in the future. His role as CEO of the Atlas Agency is to drive the company’s growth and to push Atlas to become an important component of the larger regional company.

Mr. Rectenwald was graduated from the University of Detroit with a B.S. in Architectural Engineering and earned an Executive MBA from Michigan State University.

Mr. Rectenwald served in the U.S. Navy for five years and, after a tour in Vietnam, spent three of those years stationed at Presidential Retreat at Camp David, Maryland.

Mr. Rectenwald resides happily in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Robin N. Uncapher
Senior Vice President, Recruiting
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Robin brings extensive expertise in executive search and financial services to her new role. Before joining Atlas Agency, Robin worked in the Washington, DC area for six years, recruiting for a respected retained search firm. During that time Robin recruited and placed senior level candidates in financial services, government contracting, manufacturing and not-for-profits. Before beginning her career in executive search, Robin held a number of corporate positions including Vice President at Chase, managing a wide array of domestic and international business training programs and Vice President, Training Manager at Chemical Bank, where she managed training for that bank’s Global Securities and Foreign Exchange Division. Robin has experience working in retail, institutional, investment, high net worth, trading functions and private banking. Robin also managed professional development programs, on Wall Street, for what is now Salomon-Smith Barney.

Robin brings us a whole new level of professionalism and expertise as well as a fresh perspective from her role, believe it or not, as a published romance novel critic! Nothing is ever dull here at the Atlas Agency!

Elise M. Ambrose
President

Elise purchased the Atlas Agency in May 2005 from Dolores Ebert. Elise also owns Elite Personnel, an administrative and technical staffing service located in Bethesda, Maryland, which she purchased in 2003.

Ms. Ambrose spent many years in management positions in small businesses around the Washington, DC area. She worked for Elite Personnel for several years in the mid-90s and was very excited to have the opportunity to purchase the company when the previous owner left to raise her growing family.

Elise felt that the opportunity to purchase the Atlas Agency was just too good to give up. It has a long established reputation for quality service, a loyal customer base and wonderful, talented personnel. It matches well with the administrative and technical services that Elite Personnel offers. The combination is truly a "one stop shop" for staffing and professional personnel services.

Ms. Ambrose recuperates at her home in the Shenandoah Valley on weekends!

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